Wednesday:"If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going." ~ Wendell Berry 1) Please read student 1 and student 2's mentor text that were INSPIRED by the author of the original poem. Note how they emulated without plagiarizing her poem. Also note how each student ended their poems with a staisfying concluding stanza, in the mood of Lyon but distinctly his or her own.2) Today, using your Cross-Generational Questionaire and your Heart Map - you will try your hand at EMULATING George Ella Lyon's poem - Where I'm From.3) Please write your draft in a word document.4) In the last 10 minutes in class - use the file icon (green picture frame icon) to upload your draft onto your wiki page.5) When it has uploaded, type in your authorly comments: Example - Draft 1: I feel like I have a good start here. I am currently working on word choice and I feel like I want to polish the ending. If the upload process does not work...don't worry! We will get there! I will be back to help! Thursday: Finding your focus "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." ~Alexander Graham Bell As author Ralph Fletcher describes in his book, How to Write Your Life Story, "If you're eleven years old you have already been alive for at least 4,017 days. Those days contain thousands of experiences.." Fantastic/furious friend moments, perfect/perfectly maddening parent pictures pop to mind, and a zillion other super/sad, silly, shout to the stars snapshot moments. So...how do you choose what to write about?
Monday: Heart Territories Map
Please finish your writing territories heart map - we WILL be using these all year
Tuesday: "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Descriptive Writing Unit
Cross-Generational Questionnaire -due Wednesday 9-15
Wednesday: "If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going." ~ Wendell Berry
1) Please read student 1 and student 2's mentor text that were INSPIRED by the author of the original poem. Note how they emulated without plagiarizing her poem. Also note how each student ended their poems with a staisfying concluding stanza, in the mood of Lyon but distinctly his or her own.2) Today, using your Cross-Generational Questionaire and your Heart Map - you will try your hand at EMULATING George Ella Lyon's poem - Where I'm From.3) Please write your draft in a word document.4) In the last 10 minutes in class - use the file icon (green picture frame icon) to upload your draft onto your wiki page.5) When it has uploaded, type in your authorly comments: Example - Draft 1: I feel like I have a good start here. I am currently working on word choice and I feel like I want to polish the ending.
If the upload process does not work...don't worry! We will get there! I will be back to help!
Thursday: Finding your focus
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. the sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." ~Alexander Graham Bell
As author Ralph Fletcher describes in his book, How to Write Your Life Story, "If you're eleven years old you have already been alive for at least 4,017 days. Those days contain thousands of experiences.." Fantastic/furious friend moments, perfect/perfectly maddening parent pictures pop to mind, and a zillion other super/sad, silly, shout to the stars snapshot moments. So...how do you choose what to write about?
Friday:
Prefixes, Roots and Suffix Study Test on Friday, September 17